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Across four episodes, Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Toby Jones and Emeli Sandé each explore their family’s unique stories, retracing their grandparents’ footsteps during the events that changed their lives forever.

Stream now with the PBS App! Join award-winning singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé as she discovers her grandparents’ remarkable stories of wartime courage, spanning World War II, the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya, and the fight for independence in Zambia.

Here are all the best looks from the Met Gala 2023

The annual Met Gala fundraiser pays tribute to designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has a controversial legacy in the fashion industry.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, seen here on April 13, warned on Monday that the federal government could default on its debt as early as June 1 unless Congress raises or suspends the debt ceiling.

The U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills by June 1, Yellen warns Congress

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned lawmakers that unless the debt ceiling is raised soon, the federal government may not have enough money to pay its bills as early as June 1.

Extreme teacher shortages

San Diego Unified School officials are invoking emergency procedures to deal with an extreme shortage of teachers in classrooms. Meanwhile, some immunocompromised people will be eligible for additional Covid-19 shots, but is that enough protection? Plus, Turner Classic Movies has created a program of documentary shorts and features in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

David Rubenstein listens to Christopher Hawthorne, the Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles, discuss the history of the Hollywood Sign as an attraction.

ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN: The Hollywood Sign

Encore Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! On this eight-episode documentary series, David Rubenstein explores America’s 400-year history through a close examination of iconic national symbols: indelible artifacts, places, and archetypes. This week: Learn how a real estate advertisement erected in 1923 became an international symbol of fame, fortune, and the American dream.

Gompers Preparatory Academy is a public charter school operated under the San Diego Unified School District in cooperation with the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Calif., April 30, 2023.

Teachers at Gompers Prep will vote on whether to decertify their union

A state agency gave teachers at Gompers Preparatory Academy voting approval to decide whether to stay or leave the San Diego Education Association.

NATURE: Attenborough's Wonder of Song

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Sunday, May 25 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. David Attenborough presents seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature and explores the significance of these songs in the lives of their species. Each one - from the song of the largest lemur to the song of the humpback whale to the song of the lyrebird - was recorded in his lifetime. But will they soon be heard no more?

"I was told by the world I wasn't allowed to write classic country, even though I'd written so much of it and I loved doing it," Mya Byrne says of her new album, <em>Rhinestone Tomboy</em>, which melds her punk sensibility with polished songwriting.

How Mya Byrne paved her long, winding road to country music with grit and sparkle

Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy.

Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, speaks during a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee in the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont. on Monday, May 1, 2023. Rep. Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters.

Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues over her removal from House floor

Zephyr was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters.

Rain drops cover the outside of a car window on a stormy day in Santee, May 2, 2021.

Widespread rain expected in San Diego County through Thursday

Forecasters are predicting widespread rain over San Diego County starting Monday.

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